frankfg94 / chat-app

A Multithreaded Chat App made in C#

Quick Chat M1 | EFREI P2021

This application is a multithreaded C# Messaging app on Windows (Gui version), and Linux, MacOs (console version). It was designed to be complete yet pleasant to use.

Features

• Send pictures and display them in the chat
• Console & WPF client version. A WPF client can communicate with the console version
• Send private messages
• Edit/delete a message
• Create, edit a conversation name & description
• Only be notified by a conversion once you join it
• Send a temporary file
• Send a temporary audio file (snapchat like)
• Subscription (console version)

Prerequisites

You need .Net Core 3.1 or higher to be able to run this project

If you don't have it you can download it at https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download

Installing & Running

To use this software, you can open the .sln file in visual studio and run the server project with the following name

Web_App_Core_Server

You can now connect it with two kinds of clients by running the projects

Web_App_Core_Client (console client) or WebChatGuiClient (graphic client)

You can set your custom IP Address & port in the Server.cs file in the Web_App_Core_Server project. For the client side, you can set them in the file Program.cs (for Web_App_Core_Client) or LoginWindow.xaml.cs (for WebChatGuiClient)

You can then connect as a Quick Chat user by using the following credentials :

Username : François Password : 123 or Username : gaga Password : gaga

For the console version, use the following command to directly connect :

connect | u:{your username} p:{your password}

Or the following to subscribe :

subscribe | u:{your username} p:{your password}

Built With

• .NET Core - A software cross platform framework
• WPF - The graphic framework used for the client
• MaterialDesignXAML - For having new styles in WPF

Author

• Gillioen François Github - (https://github.com/frankfg94) GitLab - (https://gitlab.com/frankfg94)

License

This project has no license

Additionnal informations

Created for a school project in two weeks
Lines of code : approx 2700